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At Least 200 Candidates Withdraw From French Election Runoff

At Least 200 Candidates Withdraw From French Election Runoff

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The French parliamentary elections are heading into their second round, with at least 200 candidates withdrawing ahead of Sunday's runoff election. The majority of these withdrawals come from the left-wing New Popular Front (over 110) and Macron's camp (over 70). Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist party, views next Sunday as a crucial day for France. As parties have until Tuesday evening to register contenders, it remains unclear how many left- and center-leaning candidates will abandon their bids in an attempt to unify against Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) party, which emerged as the clear frontrunner in the first round. Despite this, it is uncertain whether the RN can secure the necessary 289 seats for a majority.

François Bayrou
1. Do I wish for us to come together among republicans to block the RN? Yes.
Jordan Bardella
National Rally
1. It's a choice next Sunday between Mr Mélenchon as prime minister and us.
Laure Lavalette
National Rally
1. On one hand, you have those who love France and on the other, those who love Hamas.
Marine Le Pen
National Rally
1. If we then have a majority, then yes, of course, we'll go and do what the voters elected us to do.
2. This election is about the emancipation of the French people.
3. It is evident that we cannot accept to go to government if we cannot act.
4. When you want to counter the results of an election by nominating your people to jobs, and when that stops [the government] from being able to carry out policies which the French people have asked for... I call that an administrative coup d'état.
5. I will be at the head of the group of deputies.
6. France Unbowed has made the choice to withdraw its candidate and call on people to vote for Madame Borne, who implemented the pension reform using article 49.3 [which allows a prime minister to pass a law without a parliamentary vote].
7. To come out and say, as the president of the republic did a fortnight ago, that 'Nupes 2' [the new left-wing alliance] is anti-parliamentarian, anti-Semitic, communitarian and then today [...] to say that they are better, that they are more reasonable than Jordan Bardella, than Marine Le Pen [...], it makes no sense.
8. This is precisely what the people have come to say: 'Stop giving us lessons in morality, stop telling us where we should vote, how we should think'. That's what they said in the first round, and I hope they'll say it in the second round too, because that's the key to changing the policy they've been enduring for seven years now.
9. Once we hit, for example 270 MPs, we will need 19 more.
Emmanuel Macron
Renaissance
1. Let's not be mistaken. It's the far right that's on its way to the highest office, no one else.
Gabriel Attal
Renaissance
1. I hope the Together camp is as big as possible. After that, we will seek to secure majorities on a project-by-project basis.
2. We can avoid an absolute majority for the far right.
3. Neither LFI or NFP can win an absolute majority.
Anne Hidalgo
Socialist Party
1. The match is not over. We must mobilise all our forces.
Natacha Butler
Al Jazeera
1. The impact this will actually have on Sunday when voters go back to the polls is not predictable.
2. It means that in a number of those constituencies where there was a three-way race, there will actually just be a two-way race between the far-right candidate and whoever has stayed in the race, whether it be a centrist candidate or a left-wing alliance candidate.

At Least 200 Candidates Withdraw From French Election Runoff

2024 French General Elections

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